Safety-razor.



L. KALINA.

SAFETY RAZOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11, 1912.

1,052,346, Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

I7 lg 28 WITNESSES Losser Kcflna TTRNEYS K ALINA, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

Saran-Razon y Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

Application med my 11,1912.1 serial No. 696,652.

To all 'whom it may-concern? Be it known tha-t I, LOESER KALINA, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brookl n, in the county vof Kings and State of ew York, have invented a new and Improved Safety-Razor, of which the following is a` full, clear, and exact description;

My invention relates to a. safety razor adapted to be constructed of a size to permit the use of the same as a cuff button, and while the device will be described more particularly with relation to its function as a safety razor, it isto be understood that one of a pair of these combined safety razors and cuff buttons may be made of a size and material adapted to be carried in the cuff, the other member of the pair being made to simulate the cuflbutton constructed as a razor.`

A further object of my inventionA is to construct the-safet razor of the minimum number of parts, a l of the parts, except theblade, vbeing held together, so as to prevent the loss of the several parts. e

'A further object of my invention is to -'provide a handle which vmay be removed, if

desired, from the position in which its greatest diameter extends lengthwise of the blade holder to a position at right angles to the same, the handle in either position adapted to clamp Athe parts together, and having means to maintain the handle in locking position, and, at the same time, in its longitudinal position relative to the length of the body portion, as is common with cuff buttons.

A furtherA object of Amy invention is lto provide a safety razor having a pointed lade, whereby the same may be used to shave up and down without changing the position of the safety razor in the .hand or the position of the arm, and to allow shaving portions of the face which are diflicult of access with the usual form of razor.

I attainA the above-outlined objects by `pivoting together one end of a guard plate,'a

holder and a blade seat, and threading through an'opening in the holder, one Vend of a T-shapedhandle'which bears on the guard plate to force the blade on to its seat, the shank A`of the T` havin an adjustable set screw in the end thereo Reference is to be had to the :accompany-y ing drawings, formin a part of this specification, in which simi ar characters of refervence indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, and in whichf Figure 1 is a side elevation of a preferred embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan viewllooking down upon the same with the handle-removed; Fig. 3 is a similar view but with the holder removed and showing the guard plate in plan; Eig. 4is a detached plan view of the blade; Fig. 5 is a 'vertical longitudinal sectional view taken throughA thedevice shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a central transverse sectional view taken through the device but showing: the handle in its second position; Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a modified form of my invention, particularly adapted foruse as a combined cuff button and safety razor,and showing a construction substantially one-half the .device shown in the preceding figures; and Fig. 8 is a second modification differing from the preceding figures merely in being rectangular in plan rather than, the diamond-shaped structure disclosed inthe preceding figures.

Described more in detail, I have shown a holder 9 relatively thick at itstcentral portion and thinning 4out toward all edges, this holder and the coactingparts shown 1n Figs. 1` to 6, being diamondshaped in plan. Adapted to be disposedbelow and extending slightly beyond the edges of the holder 9, is a guard plate 10, having the usual form of teeth 11 projecting beyond the adjacent edge of the holder 9. Y Disposed' below the guard plate 10 is a blade seat 12, similar in construction and form to the holder 9. These three members are pivoted at one end therep of by means of a pivot pin 13, slid pin paSS- ing through a slot 14 in the guard plate, so that this guardplate may have not only a movement of rotation about the pin 13 but may also have a longitudinal movement relative to the greatest diameter of. the uard plate 11. The guard plate, holder and lade seat are held in position by a headed pin 15, rigidly fastened in the blade seat at the longitudinal end thereof opposite the-pivot'13, the guard 1() having a recess 16 extending inward from one edge thereof and the holder 9 having a recess 17 similarly positioned therein, said guard plate 10 and holder 9 being adapted to be positioned be low the head 18 of the pin 15.

Adapted to restupon the qblade seat 12 and positioned between the blade seat and the guard plate 10, is a razor blade 19, similar in construction to the guard plate but of a size so that the edges 20 thereof are slightly inset from the outer line of the teeth 11, said vblade having a .pair of keyways 2l and 22 extending longitudinally inward from diametrically opposite points, the longer leyway 21 adapted to straddle the pin 13 until the point 23 of the blade has passed the pin 15. Then by drawing the blade slightly upward, the slot 22 is made toV straddle. the pin 15. Theblade is held in this position on the pins 13 and 15 and between the guard 11 and the blade seat 12, by the engagement of the end of the handle 24, which handlel is of a T shape having the outer end of the short stem 25 threaded, as well as one of the ends 26 of the long stem or head 27.

The holder 9 has a threaded bore` 28 extending centrally therethrough, which bore is adapted to have inserted therein, one of, thethreaded ends of the handle 24, which end bears upon the guard 10 in order to lforce the same into Vengagement with the blade, and in turn to force the same into posit-ion on the holder 12.

In order that the long stem 27l of the handle 24 shall extend in the line of greatest dimension of the razor, especially when the same is used as a cuff button, an adjusting screw 29 is threaded into: one or both of the exteriorly threadedends of the handle, so that this screw 29 may be adjusted in order to rotate the handle into position. A binding engagement will be made with the blade, and, at the same time, the long stem 27 of the handle will extend longitudinally of the In the disclosure in Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive' four cutting edges are presented, but where a smaller construction is desired, as, for in stance, when the device is used as cuff buttons, but two cutting edges are used, as shown in Fig. 7, by forming the bladeand its coacting parts in the Yform of a small isosceles triangle with the blade positioned centrallyl in one piece thereof. -This same arrangement of parts vmay be utilized in `a razor of the rectangular shape common ,to safety razors now in general use, and, as shown in Fig. 8, the holder 9 may have a stud 30 projecting therefrom adapted to receive o-ne of the threaded ends of the holder 24.

The short stem' 25 of the handle 24 is detachably connected with the long stem 27 by the use of a reduced threaded portion 31 on the short stem 25 screwing into the long stem 27, and the end of the latter opposite the threaded portion 31 the threaded end 26 is provided with a screw hole 32 (see Fig. 5), to permit of screwing into t-he screw hole 32- t'o lengthen the handle 24, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 6. f

It is understood that in using the safety razor with the parts in position shown in Figs. 1, 5 and 7, the user can readily shave up 'and down without changing the position of the safety razor in the hand or the position of the arm, as the opposite cutting edges of the blade can be brought successively in use on the upanddown stroke.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as"new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: e

1. A safety razor provided with a holder `and a T-shaped handle having a relatively long head and a short stem, one end of the said head or the outer end of the saidv stem removably engaging the said holder.

2. A safety razor provided with a holder having a threaded bore and a T-shaped handle having ag relatively long head and a short stem, one end of the said head and the short stem being threaded, either of the said threaded ends being adapted to engage the said bore.

3. A safety razor, lcomprising a blade holder and blade, the holder having a threaded bore at its middle, a T-shaped handle having a relatively long head and a short stem, the outer end of the short stem being threaded and screwing in the said bore, and a set screw carried in the outer end of the Ashort stem to press said blade into engagement with the said holder at the time the"said head is in position parallel to the greatest dimension of` the blade and holder.

4. A safety razor, comprising a holder, a guard plate, a blade and a blade seat, superimposed one ony the other, the holder being provided with a threaded bore at its middle, and a handle having a relatively long head and ashort stem, one end of the said head and the outer end of the said stem being threaded for screwing into the said threaded bore, and the said stem being removably connected with the said head'either at the middle of the head or at one end thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in' the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' LOESER KALINA. Witnesses:

THEO.` G. Hos'rER,

I PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs. 

